Combat, Slimes, and Killing People? [SOLO]

[Angel]

It had only been a day since the Apocalypse, and Angel was itching for something to kill. He had never been an easily frustrated man, but for once in his life he just needed something to kick the crap out of. He wandered around London, asking both landers and players alike if they know of any good locations to kill enemies. One of the landers told him that if he went out and killed a couple slimes and brought back some of their slime that he would pay him for his trouble. Angel simply nodded and said “Will do, but could you meet me in the forest?” The lander simply smiled, and agreed. Eventually the two had a meeting spot planned out, just on the edge of the inside of the forest. Angel chose this spot for a specific reason: anybody on the road would be unable to see what conspired in the forest.

Angel practically glided into the forest in search of these slime creatures. Apparantly they were quite rare at the time, as he only found one, and it was being killed by another Adventurer. “Tch,” Angel made the sound in more frustration as he had never had any trouble finding enemies in the other games he played. He leaned against a nearby tree as he watched the adventurer fight with the slime. He selected the adventurer as the manual for the game had mentioned to him before he started, and looked at their stats. He was a Wolf Hair like Angel, and a druid at that. No wonder they were losing, they weren’t even a combat class. This didn’t stop Angel from learning what he could from the game, whoever this druid was had mastered a style of combat he had no idea about. They simply motioned and their spells went off. “I should try that myself,” he muttered and searched through his skill list.

He drew his weapons and selected Viper Strike. He took his stance and stabbed the air in two specific locations twice. He did this a couple of times off to the sidelines as the Druid was battling the slime. Now it was time to practice what the druid was doing. He took the stance and began thinking about the skill. It took him awhile to pull it off, and by the time he had succeeded, the druid had collapsed. Success, that feeling felt great! Angel walked over to the near death slime, and the other adventurer who was crawling away. The adventurer grabbed his shoe as he walked by to finish off the slime.

“Help... me...”

Angel kicked him in the gut, forcing the other adventurer to roll away from him, coughing up what his only guess was blood, and then the druid perished, lying there cold and still. He didn’t have the time to deal with weaklings who couldn’t kill a single slime. Turning away from the dead body he walked over, and performed a viper strike, striking the slime with both weapons, executing it as it exploded in green blood. “Interesting... slimes can bleed.” He harvested the slime for the quest item, and went on his way. He needed three more to complete it.

Health: 100%
Mana: 82%
Words: 534

[Angel]

As Angel wandered around the forest, he came across several critters that ran from him. Their names were Frenmic Rabbits, and he almost ignored them if it weren’t for how many he was finding. He swing his rapier at a Rabbit that came too close, and it bolted off further into the forest. “Get out of here, you are not my quarry!” Once again he looked around before a large green blob fell from the sky and landed on him. It was a slime! Angel struggled to get the dull slime off of him, he eventually yelled, “Get off!” as he pushed the slime off of him and stood up. His armor had globs stuck to it in random places and Angel looked furious. “You will pay for ruining my outfit!” Angel quickly activated Viper Strike, and only one strike landed. His raper pierced the gelatinous flesh, causing it to start leaking green all over the ground again, but the slime had moved in such a way as to avoid the dagger entirely, causing Angel to lose his balance.

The slime jumped and hit him directly in the face, causing Angel to recoil. Once he regained his balance, he looked at the slime and rubbed where it struck him. You are going down. The two traded blows for a little bit as the slimes health rapidly dropped, and Angel’s health slowly went down due to the slimes blows. Finally, Viper Strike was off cooldown and Angel immediately used it once more, finishing the slime in another green gore fest. “Two down, two to go.” He marched further into the forest in hopes of finding more enemies. Normally people are hunting the lower leveled enemies, causing in less enemies than Angel was happy with. He smiled as he sheathed his swords, if he found more enemies quick, he would get to have more fun!

Life: 79%
Mana: 62%
Words: 313

[Angel]

It was been so long since Angel found another slime that Angel was thinking of cutting it quits after the next one, and just lying to the NPC about the slimes, but then he realized that he wouldn’t get a reward for handing over just three. So he figured he would overextend and aim for two in one go. This time he was bolting everywhere, and by the time he found a slime his mana had naturally regenerated to full. Lucky for him, he came across another adventurer, this time a Guardian, and he appeared human. With a simple selection, he could read that he wasn’t human, he was a Half-Alv, and once again he was losing; probably because of the three on one he was having. Angel sat on the sidelines and watched once more as the man fought two slimes and a rabbit.

The man was flanked, he fought and fought and as his health reached 50% he turned and saw Angel. “What are you doing just standing there! Fight!” His phrase prompted a yawn from the blonde man standing in the shade, causing the Guardian to glare at him.

“You expect me to help a complete stranger? Go on, keep entertaining me.” Angel’s voice took a tone that was obviously disliked by the Guardian as he yelled in frustration followed by the death of the rabbit that he was fighting.

“You fool of a woman! After I’m done with these slimes, you are next!”

“I wouldn’t be so sure of that.” Angel deftly replied, motioning to the slimes that slapped around the Guardian right as he let his guard down. The battle seemed to almost restart, as the guardian got both of the slimes near death. Angel was worried he might succeed, but then he noticed the other adventurer’s life bar, he was as close to death as the slimes, and he needed to do something or else the slimes were not going to be his kill. Drawing his weapons, he walked forward and activated a viper strike on the lone guardian from behind. As the guardian bled he looked at Angel.

“Why...?” It was apparent that this woman was indeed not a man as his health bar hit 0, and he perished. Since Angel had entered the combat by attacking the guardian, the slimes immediately turned on him and in response Angel struck at the two slimes. They were low enough that it only took a successful strike from both weapons to bring them both down, however they were oddly evasive for slimes and even this took him awhile. Only after his close victory did he realize that they were both level three, and the guardian he killed was four.

“Hah! Higher level and you still failed!” Angel kicked the guardians corpse as it vanished, then harvested the slimes and headed back towards the spot where he told the quest giver to wait.

Life: 28%
Mana: 78%

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It didn’t take long for Angel to reach the meeting location, and his quest-giving ‘friend’ was nowhere in sight. Angel sat against one of the trees and rested; his health was low and he needed to heal up. Drifting off into a slumber, the last thing he saw were the leaves above him blowing in the wind. So peaceful, he thought, and his dream took that same spot as well. He dreamed of his time in London, the real world London. The swashbuckler was starting to enjoy working as a manager, and his life had started calming down. Then he was trapped in this world, this world stole everything from him! His dream ended before he could continue brooding as he was shaken awake by the npc he came to meet. His health had recovered by 60%; was he really unconscious that long?

“Hey! You have the slime right?” The NPC looked eager to prepare his meal. He didn’t look particularly strong, and actually appeared to be extremely weak. He wasn’t worth Angel’s time.

“Here, take the slime. They were easier than I thought.” Angel handed the man his jars of slime, and walked back with him as they entered London. It didn’t take long for Angel to find an inn run by the Landers, and he paid his 10 gold to spend the night. He wrote a mental note to always use this inn, as the beds were just too comfy to give up on, and it was better than living on the street; that would have brought back bad memories.

Life: 100%
Mana 100%
Words: 749
Thread Words: 1596
Extra: Spent 10 gold on the inn. 2 Level 1 Slimes were killed, and 2 level 3 slimes. Also killed a level 4 NPPC Guardian, but oh well. The line signifies where I merged posts, and is not counted as a word.